Tyler - guitar and vocals / Mike - guitar and vocals / Aaron - drums / Dean - bass
Influences
There are way too many to mention. We are all record collector nerds and between the four of us we could probably open a really cool record store. We kind of try to find good things in all music - even the stuff we don't like. I hate to give the answer that we like "everything," but it's true - we really do like everything.
Sounds Like
Cheap Trick, Raspberries, Roxy Music, Kinks, Staxx/Volt, Blur, April Wine, Faces, Clash, Shocking Blue, the soundtrack to "Hot Dog:The Movie," Yardbirds, Huey Lewis & The News, Big Star, and like sipping champagne while watching The Cannonball Run. . .
If recent world and national events have you down, we’ve got good news for you: Tiger Mountain have a new album out. It’s not going to bring peace to the Middle East, or change the electoral map – but if you feel like your head has become muddled and fuzzy lately, rest assured there’s enough divine wattage and pure oxygen here to lift anybody out of the doldrums. Tiger Mountain proceed with a compositional clarity and a faith rock and roll that is positively enlightening. This is the sound of true believers.
Get Along Like A House On Fire is the name of the latest volume from the New York City quartet, and it’s a natural successor to Analog Heads Gone French, their debut. Analog Heads unfolded like a string of paper dolls – outros running into intros, the voices of guitarists Mike Jackson and Tyler Lenane (formerly of Girltoucher) overlapping and chasing each other. It was a perfect driving album –, one great singalong anthem after another on the stereo, top down and antenna up, a breeze clipping in from the ocean. It was an album that ended too fast, and one that demanded an encore.
You’re holding that encore. Without losing any of the intensity and sincerity that has made Tiger Mountain a big draw in the New York club scene, Get Along Like A House On Fire expands on Analog Heads Gone French. The group has broadened their instrumental palette – the twin guitar crunch is still at the heart of most of these songs, but the band has also incorporated dizzy synthesizer, whiny melodica, and chilly electric piano into their arrangements. Bassist Dean Rispler (formerly of Murphy’s Law) plays with an increased elasticity here, stuttering and staggering through the tracks with unerring precision. Powerhouse drummer Aaron Conte (formerly of Nada Surf) has also expanded his vocabulary of beats and fills – he can be manic and hyperactive, but he can also move effortlessly from a complex verse beat to a Stax-Volt stomp, as on the bracing “Century’s Gone”.
This band has always put rock and roll excitement first, and they haven’t deviated a bit from their mission. But where Analog Heads Gone French crashes in and out like a good one night stand, Get Along Like A House On Fire stops and settles in for awhile. The band slows down the pace for a few semi-acoustic ballads (“She Played Me Too”, “Good Lie Down”), and plays a bit with compositional expectation during the long and hypnotic outro to “Cut Your Darlings”. The group even stops for a forty-seven second space rock instrumental – the disorienting “Hold On To Planet Earth” – before roaring into “The Occasion”, a slice of uncompromising classic rock straight from the Kinks’ late-Seventies playbook. Best of all, Jackson and Lenane have sharpened their lyrical sensibilities. Song after song on Get Along examine ambiguous relationships from a thoughtful – and occasionally rueful – perspective.
The result is an album of hooky, exuberant rock tracks that are sweet as cotton candy, but that don’t dissipate upon close inspection. The new seriousness that Tiger Mountain has adopted suits them well – it adds a gravity to the project and it encourages protracted engagement. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the decision to deepen and expand the Tiger Mountain sound has made the group’s music even more infectious than ever. Turn it up, kick back, and enjoy the ride.
-Tris McCall
We are recording a LIVE ALBUM next week at The Trash Bar with 16 bands! Be There!
On June 14th DJ Mojo & BREAKTHRURADIO. COM present the first in an ongoing series of live shows intended to epitomize the podcast station's mandate to bring to the public the best,most innovative and exciting music being made today. The bands below will give the audience an experience of good music, great fun and fantastic entertainment!
june 14 - $8 +++++++ BELL HOLLOW-10 CRUEL BLACK DOVE-11 APPOMATTOX-12 DESIRE LINES-9 LUDLOW LIONS-8
AND *DJ MOJO'S BIRTHDAY BASH - July 2 featuring Gary Lucas' Gods and Monsters* Gary Lucas (Captain Beefheart) Billy Ficca (Television) Ernie Brooks (Jonathan Richmond & The Modern Lovers) Jason Candler (Hungry March Band) Joe Hendel (The Latest Show on Earth)
JOCK-8 WILD YAKS-11 TELENOVELA STAR-10 GARY LUCAS' GODS AND MONSTERS-12 RENMINBI-9
hey my friend saw your profiLle and thin7ks you look ho1t! she is new to myspxace but wants to chat with you on mswn mesLsenger her name on there is emily82bath@hotmail.com
I fotund this wepbsivte that shoZws who has a cruXsh on you and thgought you'd wKanna know that one of my friDends had o6ne on you. You goVtta tNry itk!
I fodund this weDbsi8te that sho1ws who has a cruVsh on you and thzought i'd leBt you know that one of my friMends had oEne on you. You goPtta tury itH!
Thanks for the ADD & welcome! This is just the start... you can hear it happening! Watch MySpace.....
IT'S NOW HAPPENING...!!! & WE SIGN TO MAKE 21ST CENTURY TIGER, OUR OFFICIAL CHARITY.... GREAT BUNCH OF CATS... COME CHECK THEM OUT...
A WILD TIGER CONSERVATION CHARITABLE ORGANISATION, IN THEIR VARIOUS CONSERVATION PROGRAMMES TO ENSURE A FUTURE FOR TIGERS IN THE WILD
www.21stcenturytiger.org
Help End the Tiger Trade
10% profit from all sales (+ 100% from the SAVE THE TIGERS designs) goes to 21ST CENTURY TIGER. Hopefully more than these fascinating iconic images will remain as a record of the majesty of the tiger.
First and foremost, thank you again for being our friends. We seriously and sincerely appreciate it more than you know. If you want more of us, you can now buy our brand spanking new album on iTunes. That's it, you still rawk:) And that is a very good thing.
The Sun Seekers have recorded a version of Teenage Kicks for a national radio station competition in Ireland. This song was a hit in the 70's for the punk band The Undertones who hailed from Derry in the north of the country. The recording features Derek Murray of great Irish band The Stunning on lead guitar. Listen and download it for free on The Sun Seekers myspace page.
I've been waiting five months to tell you this......our new EP Curtain of Stars is now available on our myspace page!! Hell yeah. That's it, you rawk!!
We are heading into the studio with Nic Hard, producer of The Church, The Bravery, Aberdeen CIty, The Kin, etc. We will resurface sometime in May with some great new recordings and a show at The Annex (May 24, 8 PM) !!! Until then...
Hi, Like the music and Thanks for adding us to your friends list. I am sure you checked out what we are doing for musicians and just wanted to get back with you. Please do your Free Fan Analysis, and tell us what you think what we should add to make it better anything you think would help you,
Look, everyone knows you're a beautiful, brilliant, billionaire, rock star, astrophysical cosmologist. So, why not vote for me to be on "America's Next Big Producer?" All you have to do is watch THIS SHORT VIDEO BIO
Maybe click on the "love it" button while you're at it. Come on, you owe it to yourself!
Hey, Tyler, say hi to Chih-Hao's girl Yu-Lan for me. And play a show, any show, even a crappy one. Love to hear what the Mountains have to say of late.
I just want to drop by to show some love...
I must say your page is hot and the choice of music is fantastic...
you need to put me on your top friends... I think I'm cool enough...lol
tell people about my website WWW.GLOBALAXESGPS.COM
Wanted to let you know my new album 'Stoned Beautiful'
